Quotes About Control

Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

You need a plan," she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. "To lose your temper is to lose the battle.

To lose your temper is to lose the battle.

a large and ever-expanding range at the bullies' disposal.

May I keep this?" It was not a question. He was already turning away, placing her miniature painting inside his leather book and tying the straps, so that the bird could never fly away again, even if it had lived.

Can you not just put the seat belt on?" I snap. I can't help it. I have a low threshold for repetitive electronic noises.

Suzy Zeus is tense as stemware, not explosive, just on edge— needs a ten-foot wall around her, or at least a ten-foot hedge, Suzy's straining, teeth to toenails, easing backward on the ledge.

Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love.

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Modern Western empires are different from empires of old as well as the Soviet empire of yesterday in one important respect: they combine a democratic political system at home with despotism abroad. Even in the German case, as Sheldon Wolin reminds us, Nazi terror was not applied to the population generally. So long as democracy is a living reality at home, democratic empires are potentially self-correcting.

Be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle" (Psalms 32:9).

Sabes cuál es la diferencia entre un adicto y un enfermo?... Que el adicto puede dejar de serlo en cualquier momento y el enfermo no. Es tan sencillo como chasquear los dedos, decir basta. Se acabó.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

You've got him trained well. It's kind of sexy.

All I have to do is say the word and no record label will ever touch Bad Luck. You'll be out of business faster than the fat one from N'Sync.

Let me tell you something. When there is a penalty kick, most people think that the penalty taker is in control. But they are wrong. The penalty taker is full of fear, because he is expected to score. He is under great pressure. He has many choices to make, and as he places the ball and walks back to make his run, his mind is full of the possibility of failure. This makes him vulnerable, and it makes the keeper very powerful.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close to the button.

life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power of happiness over to another human being.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Conversation was strictly limited to functional needs and 'scurrilous and shameful words' and laughter were altogether prohibited, regulations especially relevant to a recurring theme in the Rule: the need to avoid displays of anger, malice, or grumbling, or reminiscences about past sexual conquests. 'Every idle word is known to generate sin.

The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black revolution is controlled only by God.